Cpanel support only RHEL and CentOS linux

16 Jul

Posted by admin as cpanel

Cpanel is most popular control panel for Linux servers.

I used to support many distros. Recently they changed policy to only support CentOS and RHEL Linx distros. They also support FreeBSD, but recommended only for expert users.

http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpwhm/cpanel11/sys_requirements.htm

It is a good move as it make them easy to prodie support and make cpanel work better on these supported OS. Both CentOS and RHEL are same.

I used to have 2 FreeBSD servers with Cpanel. Many says FreeBSD have better performance. But i don’t really see any difference. I swicthed most of my servers on Linux as it is easy to get support than on FreeBSD when you have a problem. With FreeBSD + Cpanel, you will have to find solution your self as most use Linux with cpanel.

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Easy way to block sites on LAN

06 Jul

Posted by admin as web

If you need to give limited access to users on LAN, you can use free proxy software from

http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org

This is a great software, you can have good control on your network and see who is accessing which web site.

There is a simple way to disable access to a web site on all users on the LAN. This is done by editing hosts file on the main PC that connect to internet, normally one with IP 192.168.0.1

Edit the file

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Add following

127.0.0.1 yahoo.com

Once this is done, no one on the network will be able to access yahoo.com.

Repeat the same for all sites you need to block.

yahoo is just an example, don’t block yahoo

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LiteSpeed Web Server shows advertisement on error pages

04 Jul

Posted by admin as web

Today i visited oauth.net and found following error.

LiteSpeed is a paid web server, that says much faster than free apache web server. I think it is better using open source apache than using LiteSpeed as apache code is opensource and any one can fix the bug and even make it fast. There are many experts out there who can fix problems. I use Apache for most of my web sites, use lighttpd for static files and ngnix for load balancing.

It is bad LiteSpeed showing link to their site like an advertisement when unfortunate error happens. Every time your site crash, litespeed get more visitors and more sales ?